2023-24 Bacca Fellows

Sarah Baker
Sarah Baker
My project is to develop short “beyond-the-textbook” learning modules that invite Modern Hebrew students to engage with some aspect of Israeli culture and/or the history of the language. These modules will range from mini-lessons in Biblical Hebrew to guided explorations of contemporary Hebrew media.
Della Chambless
Della Chambless
I seek to expand on multi-modal integrations which strengthen students’ connections with the cultural content of each unit. Students will gain practice in negotiating meaning and creating narratives from multiple perspectives and will participate in unit-end events in which they present, perform, and reflect within an expanded learning community. 
Elaine Guevara
Elaine Guevara
I aim to create a human evolution board game. Evolutionary biology can be overwhelming because it touches on so many different domains of knowledge, including chemistry, genetics, paleontology, and ecology. By helping students review material in a playful, social way, the game could enhance learning and curiosity.
Annette Joseph Gabriel
Annette Joseph Gabriel
My goal for the fellowship is to obtain support in designing multimedia course assignments for the course Black Girlhood in French Cinema. I am specifically honing the virtual watch parties, the final video essay, and clear rubrics that match the course’s goal to have students engage meaningfully with the ways that cinematic representation demands that we think about the world.
David Landes
David Landes
I am exploring enhancements to student dialogue in my new course The Dialogue Laboratory: Experiments in Group Communication: understanding students, redesigning classroom dynamics, empowerment, preparing for worst case events, adapting along the way.
Lisa Merschel
Lisa Merschel
Teachers are, at heart, designers. We design activities, rubrics, and syllabi and make the classroom space as welcoming as possible through the arrangement and movement of tables, chairs, and our own bodies. As a teacher/designer, I'm turning my attention to “Multimedia design" this year, to look into how a 6–8-page Spanish language essay can be enhanced by sound and imagery.

 

 José María Rodríguez García
José María Rodríguez García
 My topic may be described as a semester-long exercise in art-history student engagement with visual composition through pasted paper collage and image editing using digital technologies.
Corina Stan
Corina Stan
I would like to design a multimedia project for Modernism across the Arts, a course I teach regularly at Duke, which focuses on intermedial collaborations among international modernist writers, painters, composers, choreographers, and other artists. 

 

No fellows match the specified criteria.